Christmas is just around the corner. Now is the right time to decorate the house festively. No matter whether shiny or simple, modern or classic: stylish decorations put the whole family in the Christmas spirit. We give you seven useful tips that you can use to decorate your house or apartment for Christmas. Enchant your home into a winter wonderland with textiles, animal figures and natural materials, make it a cozy place with homemade items and make it shine with fairy lights and candles.
Decorate your house for Christmas: Helpful tips for a successful Christmas decoration
Skillfully combine the individual decorative elements
A festive Christmas decoration is made up of several elements. A door wreath welcomes guests, a garland over the mantel or on the windowsill conjures up a cheerful atmosphere and a beautiful table decoration invites you to a feast. The centerpiece of the decoration – the Christmas tree – should be the focus. It comes into its own particularly well when you stage it with a string of lights.
Avoid kitsch traps
Kitsch traps are often difficult to avoid, especially at festive times. Richly ornamented angel figures, colorful fairy lights and glittering Christmas balls make the decoration appear chaotic and quickly tire the eyes. Instead, opt for puristic Christmas decorations with a reduced design language made from simple materials such as paper, wood, metal or glass.
Choose color scheme
In addition to the classic duo “red and white”, there are now a variety of other colors that can enrich the Christmas color palette. Natural dark green, subtle petrol blue, soft pink pastel nuances and even black set the tone this year. Metallic nuances such as rustic silver, copper and gold add an additional touch of glamour. To ensure a harmonious interaction in the end, combine Christmas decorations with a matt and shiny surface.
This way you can decorate your house for Christmas and create an atmospheric ambience
Create a festive feeling with textiles and home accessories
You can also create an atmospheric ambience with textiles and home accessories. Pillowcases in scarlet red, napkins in fir green and tablecloths in brown, beige or white create the Christmas spirit. Fabrics with subtle Christmas motifs such as Christmas cookies, snowflakes and deer figures are also ideal. Out ofthis wonderful Christmas fabricFor example, you can sew napkins or a tablecloth with gingerbread motifs.
Decorate for Christmas with homemade items
Homemade Christmas tree decorations look very charming, give the festive decoration character and give you a cozy feeling. Beginners can fold Christmas trees or stars out of paper, sew a bunting or make gift boxes. Experienced craft enthusiasts can make gingerbread houses, wooden figures or napkin rings themselves. There are no limits to your own creativity!
Christmas decorations made from natural materials
Colorful and effective Christmas decorations can also be created using natural materials. Fir or pine branches form the perfect background, but eucalyptus, cypress and boxwood also look great. Mistletoe, bird and holly berries add color accents, citrus fruits and cinnamon sticks spread a pleasant scent throughout the room and nuts and pine cones effectively round off the decoration.
Illuminate the Christmas decorations in style
Colorfulflashing fairy lightswere yesterday. Today we decorate the Christmas tree with monochrome fairy lights and the modern Advent wreath with LED candles. Fairy lights with small stars also look very charming, arranged in a glass jar together with natural finds such as pine branches, pine cones and rose hips. Real candles or vintage lanterns also spread soft light, provide warmth and flicker atmospherically at the festive table.
